S2 Games Releases Second Free Content Update for Savage 2: A Tortured Soul

June 18, 2008

S2 Games Releases Second Free
Content Update for Savage 2: A Tortured Soul

New Units, New Maps, New Enduring
Items, Automated Tournament System and More

Independent game developer S2 Games
continues its commitment to support fans and community with the release of the
second, massive free content update for Savage 2: A Tortured Soul. Delivering on
the promise to continually update and support Savage 2, this marks the second in
a series of free, sizable content updates that other publishers might ordinarily
charge for.

The completely free content update
will bring many new features to Savage 2, including:

Enduring Items – Unlike regular
items, which players lose upon dying, Enduring Items will stay with players
throughout the match. Some items will have only a one-time use, while others
may have an ongoing effect for a specific period of time

New Special Unit: “Maliken” –
Maliken is a late-game super unit, designed to be the most powerful unit seen
in Savage 2 to date. To play as this unit, players will first need to acquire
a series of special Enduring Items which will enable them to transform into
Maliken and potentially turn the tide of battle for their team

New Beast Unit: “The Hunter” –
Frequent players of the Beast Horde will be saying goodbye to one of their old
units, the Summoner, and saying hello to a new unit, the Hunter. This new unit
will improve game balance and provide Beast players with a fun and unique new
unit to play

Automated Tournament System – The
Savage 2 website will now have full tournament functionality for clans. This
will be an automated system where clans can sign up for a specified tournament
and receive their schedule/dates of play. Servers will be reserved in-game and
clans will receive notifications of when they need to play. S2 Game will, of
course, be hosting tournaments in the future and providing sponsorships as
well as great prizes

Unit Movement Enhancements –
Adding to the already robust combat system, this latest update adds a bevy of
new “dodge and evade” maneuvers greatly enhancing the current arsenal of
character moves

New Community Created Maps:
“Desolation,” “Ancient Cities” and “Hidden Village” – All maps were created by
community members who submitted their maps for forum contests. Desolation and
Hidden Village were created by “Mercenary,” while Ancient Cities was created
by “Manias”

Character Taunts – This latest
update provides a unique “taunt animation” for each character in the game so
now players can destroy the opposing team in both body AND mind!!!

“This latest update is really a
culmination of ideas from the S2 development team AND the Savage 2 community,”
said Marc DeForest, co-founder and lead designer of S2 Games. “We are constantly
working to elicit feedback from the players in order to create new content that
will really have a positive impact on gameplay.”